Wilson, Andrew

Education

Student United College 1814-1815 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun.; Math. Jun. 1815-1816 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Log. 1816-1817 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics; Chem. 1817-1818 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Physics; Chem. (Ternar). M.A. 18.2.1820.

Student St Mary’s College 1818-1819, 1819-1820 occ., 1820-1822. Part bursary, 1818.

Birth/childhood

(Possibly baptised 5.5.1799 son of Andrew Wilson, Kilrenny and Katharine Mathieson.)

Attended Anstruther school.

Career

Probably the Andrew Wilson, preacher, Edinburgh who writes to Thomas Chalmers in 1823 asking advice whether to take a teaching job in Glasgow and abandon the Church.

Schoolmaster Coaltown Square subscription school, Markinch in 1837. [Teacher]

Sources

  • UYSM310 Lee
  • UYSM400/3/338, 339
  • Parliamentary Papers 1841 Session 1 vol. xix pt 1
  • Edinburgh, New College CHA 4.30.28